The article reviews the book "From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women; An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues" by Suzanne O'Dea.AltschillerUniv.DonaldUniv.EBSCO_bspLibrary Journal
The selection and promotion of powerful role models was a major source of inspiration during the suffrage movement, with figures such as Joan of Arc invoked as justifying women's rights. This research shows the tradition continued post-1914, but with a different focus. Well over a hundred ...
Women’s suffrage is the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. The
Lists of major causes and effects of women’s suffrage in United States. With the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the U.S. Constitution, the right to vote was formally granted to women. The amendment followed decades of activism by suc